If you scroll through the available fonts in Microsoft Word, you’ll eventually come to one that doesn’t include the letters and numbers you’re used to. Instead, you’ll see things like school buses, nautical stars, airplanes, check marks, and fruits. Welcome to the wild world of Webdings. It seems to be the 1990s pre-emoji language that never took off… or an anomaly that exists for no reason at all. Where did Webdings come from? How is it different from Wingdings and Zapf Dingbats? Why were these weird typefaces created in the first place? And are there hidden messages within them? I decided to find out....
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